Role of Women in Informal Sector Development
Author: Asian Productivity Organization
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
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Women at the Center
Author: Helen Todd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-19
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780367213794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has successfully lent small sums to poor women for income generation. This empirical study examines the programme's long-term influence and argues that credit alone can create fundamental change, even in an environment distinctly hostile to women's autonomy.
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
Author: Andrea Cornwall
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-02-23
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1444306685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together leading feminist thinkers whoexamine the struggles for interpretive power which underliesinternational development. Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender anddevelopment research are so often turned into ‘gendermyths’ and ‘feminist fables’: women are morelikely to care for the environment; are better at working together;are less corrupt; have a seemingly infinite capacity tosurvive Explores how bowdlerized and impoverished representations ofgender relations have simultaneously come to be embedded indevelopment policy and practice Traces the ways in which language and images of development arerelated to practice and provides a nuanced account of the politicsof knowledge production Argues that struggles for interpretive power are not onlyimportant for our own sake, but also for the implications they havefor women’s lives worldwide An informed analysis of how ‘gender’ has beentransformed in its transfer into development policy and how manyauthors are now revisiting and reflecting on their earlierwork
Feminisms, Empowerment and Development
Author: Jenny Edwards
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2014-03-13
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 178032586X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights remain key factors effecting women's autonomy. Feminisms, Empowerment and Development explores what women are doing to change their own personal circumstances whilst providing an in-depth analysis of collective action and institutionalized mechanisms aimed at changing structural relations. Drawing on unique, original research and approaching empowerment as a complex process of negotiation, rather than a linear sequence of inputs and outcomes, this crucial collection highlights the difficulty of creating common agendas for the advancement of women's power and rights, and argues for a more nuanced, context-based approach to development theory and practice. An indispensible text for anyone interested in gender and development, this book shows that policies and approaches to development that view women as instrumental to other objectives will never promote women's empowerment as they fail to address the structures by which gender inequality is perpetuated over time.
Vietnam’s Women in Transition
Author: Kathleen Barry
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1349246115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen experiencing the dynamic changes of rapid industrialization in the Vietnam of today - in the family, the factory, the farm and the state - from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City - are the focus of this book. Here, the latest Vietnamese research and policy on women and the family are in dialogue with US feminist theory, research and analysis, providing a multi-disciplinary approach to women's labour, health and fertility, rural development, violence against women, and women's historical and political status at a critical moment of economic and social change.
Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI)
Author: Malapit, Hazel J.
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2019-01-18
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this paper, the authors describe the adaptation and validation of a project-level WEAI (or pro-WEAI) that agricultural development projects can use to identify key areas of women’s (and men’s) disempowerment, design appropriate strategies to address identified deficiencies, and monitor project outcomes related to women’s empowerment. The 12 pro-WEAI indicators are mapped to three domains: intrinsic agency (power within), instrumental agency (power to), and collective agency (power with). A gender parity index compares the empowerment scores of men and women in the same household. The authors describe the development of pro-WEAI, including: (1) pro-WEAI’s distinctiveness from other versions of the WEAI; (2) the process of piloting pro-WEAI in 13 agricultural development projects during the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, phase 2 (GAAP2); (3) analysis of quantitative data from the GAAP2 projects, including intrahousehold patterns of empowerment; and (4) a summary of the findings from the qualitative work exploring concepts of women’s empowerment in the project sites. The paper concludes with a discussion of lessons learned from pro-WEAI and possibilities for further development of empowerment metrics.
Gender and Sustainability
Author: Mar’a Luz Cruz-Torres
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2012-11-08
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0816530017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGender and Sustainability deals with women's struggles to contend with global forces—environmental change, economic development, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women, and diminishing access to natural resources—not in the abstract but in everyday life. It addresses the lived complexities of the relationship between gender and sustainability.
Household and Intrahousehold Impact of the Grameen Bank and Similar Targeted Credit Programs in Bangladesh
Author: Mark Martin Pitt
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorld Bank Discussion Paper No. 320. Provides separate estimates of the influence of borrowing by both men and women, through three credit programs, on a variety of household and individual outcomes, including school enrollment, labor supply, the asset holdings of women, recent fertility and use of contraceptives, consumption, and the anthropometric status of children. The findings show that credit provided to women is more likely to influence these behaviors than credit provided to men and has a significant effect on the well-being of poor households in Bangladesh.
The Survival Strategies of Poor Women in Urban Africa
Author: C. O'Reilly
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13:
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Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9789221092018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProduced from the LABORDOC database, lists 953 English-language publications, technical reports, working papers and other documents, produced at ILO headquarters or in ILO field offices, or prepared in connection with ILO programmes.
